Claimant, plaintiff, pursuer / Kläger
Transblawg | 31. Januar 2007 — Parties to civil proceedings in England: Up to 1999: plaintiff and defendant (divorce: petitioner and respondent) A claim…
Capitalization/Großschreibung
A colleague today received some translations as reference material and was surprised to see they capitalized 'claimant' and 'defendant'. Is this correct? I don't do it myself, but I thought it was unnecessary rather than wrong. It is definitely common in translations into English done in Germany. Is it more American? In the BlueBook and Ritter's Style Guide I found information about capitalization / upper case, but not this point. But Googling a combination of words such as "the defendant" "seeks an order" did get some American and UK ghits that looked correct. "The claimant" will narrow it down to the UK more or less (even in inverted commas, I don't think Google is case-sensitive). I suspect, the…
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-ise and -ize spellings/Englisch Orthographie
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Translated Dutch IP law / Niederländisches Recht des geistigen Eigentums auf Englisch
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The Web as dictionary/Das Internet als Wörterbuch
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Claim or action?/Übersetzungen für England
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Brochure: Law - Made in Germany - global, effektiv, kostengünstig
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Illegal Information on Tax Evasion
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German contracts/Deutsche Verträge
Transblawg | 11. März 2009 — Typical German contracts that I get to translate will start off by naming the parties and in brackets defining a short name, e.g. …
